IBM Power 575 (9125-F2A)

IBM Power 575 (9125-F2A)
Network Server
NEC Corporation

20 Jul 2010
133072

SUSE YES Certified for the following products:
Operating Systems:

SUSE® Linux Enterprise Server 12 for AMD64 & Intel64 Service Pack 3 for SUSE® SLES 12

Other Products:

SUSE® OpenStack Cloud 8 - Admin & Control Node

Product Description
The IBM Power™ 575 supercomputing node is designed for organizations that require a highly scalable system with extreme parallel processing performance and dense, modular packaging. Use it in clustered configurations of as few as 32 processor cores or in world-class supercomputer configurations of thousands of processors. Combined with specialized software from IBM, this system is designed to perform and represents the latest Power technology available.

Tested Configuration:

Computer Type:	Rack Mount
Mother Board Revision:	N/A
BIOS/uEFI:	ES330_076
CPU:	2 Intel Xeon® Platinum 8280M Processor 2.70 GHz
RAM:	64 GB
Ports and Bus Types:	64-bit PCI-X 2 PCI Express X16 2 PCI Express X8
Video Adapter:	Matrox® G200eH
Host Bus Adapter:	HPE Smart Array P408i-a SR Gen10 Controller , Serial SCSI (SAS)
Hard Disk Drive:	HPE 2TB SAS 12G Midline 7.2K SFF HDD , Serial SCSI (SAS)
CD/DVD:	HPE PLDS DU-8AESH-J2F , Serial ATA (SATA)
Test Kit:	System Certification Kit 6.6.0-34.1

Config Notes

Install: System installed via network PXE UEFI boot; the OS was installed using the UEFI boot loader and system configuration. Hard Disk Configuration: JBOD. System was scaled up to 8-sockets by joining four x880 X6 with 8S scalability connector. Xen Hypervisor: the hypervisor was booted with and requires the following additional load parameters: dom0_mem=16G dom0_max_vcpus=8.
Serial/USB/VGA port(s): provided through KVM connector console breakout cable which supplies one RS232 serial port, one VGA port and two additional USB ports.
Kdump: the crash kernel reserved memory parameter was changed to crashkernel=316M,high crashkernel=172M,low for kdump to function correctly.
SR-IOV: System was tested using SR-IOV where a virtual network adapter was given to a SLES 15 FV guest. One of the integrated 10GB Virtual Fabric Ethernet LOM adapters was used in this testing.
VM Driver Pack: All guests were tested with PV drivers installed. The SLES drivers are included with the OS. The Windows Server 2016 drivers are available from http://download.suse.com (VMDP-WIN-2.5.exe).

Adapters and Drivers


Matrox® G200eH
	Driver Type: Video Driver	Driver Name: mgag200.ko
	Driver Date: 08-Jul-2017	Driver Size: 96383
	Checksum: bbed1a4bbab6a5c26c55e3771d88ad04

HP 1Gb Ethernet 4-port 331i Adapter
	Driver Type: LAN Driver	Driver Name: tg3.ko
	Driver Date: 08-Jul-2017	Driver Size: 251575
	Checksum: 1c032cbbf8f4cb203bdc23d80846b9cc
	Driver Version: 3.137

HPE Smart Array P408i-a SR Gen10 Controller
	Driver Type: HBA Driver	Driver Name: smartpqi.ko
	Driver Date: 08-Jul-2017	Driver Size: 122607
	Checksum: cde0c095ae3b4d61f4df700986036636
	Driver Version: 1.0.4-100

The term SUSE "YES" Enterprise Certified applies only to the exact configuration documented in this bulletin. For more information on hardware exchange policies, please access the following document and view the Hardware Component Exchange Guide.

https://www.suse.com/product-certification/yes-certified/certification-requirements/

For more information regarding the specific test configuration, please contact:

NEC Corporation
1-10 Nissin-cho, Fuchu-shi
Tokyo 183-8501
JAPAN
Voice: (+81) 42 333 1324
Fax: (+81) 42 333 1821

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